This looks to be something from the Onion but it's not.
http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/3946
In November 2008 a Dutch journalist, Joanie de Rijke, was abducted by Taliban fighters in Afghanistan. She was held captive, raped repeatedly, and released after six days for a ransom of 100,000 euros ($137,000). After her ordeal, she acknowledged that her captors “did horrible things to me,” but added in several media interviews “They also respected me,” and emphasized “They are not monsters.”
Though de Rijke was angry with the Dutch and Belgian authorities, she told the Dutch media in interviews given after her release that she was not angry with her abductors. “I do not want to depict the Taliban as monsters. I am not angry with Ghazi Gul. After all, he let me live,” she said. About the rape ordeal she declared that though the experience had been horrible, she was also shown respect. “It’s not black and white. These things can exist side by side. That doesn’t mean that I’m suffering from Stockholm syndrome.”
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3 comments:
I'm not amazed. We've got tons of nut jobs here but they're full up in Europe.
Journalists as a groupthinking lot are simply forbidden from violating their commonly accepted templates. What are those, you may ask (maybe you didn't)? Well, they tend to fluctuate, but I've generally believed that their templates gravitate towards whatever belief, approach or response will piss off the most common sense people on virtually any issue.
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